Date: March 16, 2020
Karen Shoemaker’s The Meaning of Names is the official selection for the 2016 One Book One Nebraska program! The One Book One Nebraska program is sponsored by the Nebraska Center for the […]
Date: March 16, 2020
And We Shall March blog shared the news that Log Angeles poet, Douglas Kearney, just recieved one of the coveted 2008 Whiting Writers Awards, a $50,000 prize bestowed upon writers […]
Date: March 16, 2020
The fall 2009 Heyday Anthology features an excerpt from Rebecca O’Conner’s, LIFT.
Date: March 16, 2020
Rita Mae Reese’s new book, The Alphabet Conspiracy, was reviewed on The Rumpus: “But at their best, they speak in deceptively straightforward, accessible language, without aiming to impart lessons to the […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Red Hen writers are taking over the airwaves. Check out Camille Dungy talking about Suck on the Marrow and What to Eat, What to Drink, What to Leave for Poison with Word Ballast’s Billy […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem by Mitchell L. Douglas is on the Amazon.com list for top 100 African American Titles. Pick up your copy today! At a time when most […]
Date: March 16, 2020
National Poetry Month has come and gone, as it does every year. It’s a fairly new phenomenon, the National [Art Form] Month; National Poetry Month only dates from the mid […]
Date: March 16, 2020
John Domini, a Red Hen Press author, publishes many book reviews. One published review, found in Bookforum, has been selected by the National Book Critics Circle as a feature for their blog and […]
Date: March 16, 2020
Best Book of Contemporary Poetry: Ludlow by David Mason (Red Hen Press). The book-length poem has been a very risky venture in the last century. Few efforts can be counted as successes […]
Date: January 13, 2020
Here are 15 recent and upcoming books from small presses that span everything from fantasy and crime fiction to memoir and literary short stories.
Date: May 29, 2012
Maurya Simon’s sixth collection of poems, the visionary Ghost Orchid, begins, like Dante’s Commedia, in the middle of life, where we always are. The first section’s title poem, “Between Heaven […]
Date: May 29, 2012
Perhaps there is no present, and existence is built of the alterable past moving into the alterable future, and then through the opaque door of death. Or perhaps there is […]
Date: May 29, 2012
In a review in San Diego City Beat, Jim Ruland had this to say about Robert Roberge's Working Backwards From the Worst Moment of My Life – "Slick, brutal and […]
Date: May 29, 2012
In her review in Gently Read Literature, Margaret Rozga had this to say about Peggy Shumaker's Gnawed Bones – "There is so much more careful observation, music, meditation, and clear, […]
Date: May 29, 2012
In a recent review, Library Journal had this to say about Kelly Barth's My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus – "This charming memoir, Barth's first book, is an exemplary coming-out […]
Date: May 24, 2012
Bella DePaulo from Psychology Today posted a fantastic review of Ellen Meeropol's newest book, House Arrest: "I didn't plan to do so, but I read it straight through until I […]
Date: May 24, 2012
In a recent article on iBerkshires, Phyllis McGuire says that Michael Quadland's Offspring is "ultimately about a search for truth — not honesty in the moral sense, but the truth […]
Date: April 24, 2012
Kennebec Journal says that "Meeropol deftly combines her medical experience with solid writing talent to produce a suspenseful yet warm and sensitive story that explores right and wrong, the unequal […]
Date: April 24, 2012
In a recent review, Escape Pod had this to say about Fade to Black by Josh Pryor- "If you like science, CSI, stories that take place in Antarctica, or lots-of-people-crammed-into-a-small-space-slowly-going-mad, […]
Date: April 13, 2012
Cheryl Wright-Watkins for NewPages had this to say about Brian Doyle's Bin Laden's Bald Spot: "[Bin Laden's Bald Spot] would be a wonderful introduction to a reader unfamiliar with Doyle's […]
